Bats are often associated with Halloween and with that in mind these free printables make great worksheets to use with your classroom to cover a wide-range of educational topics! By incorporating ba
Howdy! I am Mr. Greg from The Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My real name is Greg Smedley-Warren. I have been teaching for 11 years. I spent a year teaching fifth grade, two years in second grade and am now in my 9th year in Kindergarten. Kindergarten is my passion and my calling but honestly, that wasn’t how it started. When I was moved to Kindergarten (not voluntarily!) I called my mommy and cried. But on the first day, I fell in love and knew that Kindergarten is where I belonged. I have remained in Kindergarten ever since. I plan to never leave the classroom as the kids are what drive me to continue my growth as a teacher and person.
We have prepared a list of Spelling Words in charts. You can download the PDF below, Download: Kindergarten Spelling Words Charts The words included in the PDF are bat, cat, mat, rat, sat, can, fan, man, pan, ran, tan, den, hen, men, pen, ten, big, dig, fig, jig, pig, wig, cot, dot, hot, lot, not, […]
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Children spin pictures using a pencil and a paper clip in this AT word family activity. Then children read the word in the corresponding box and cover it. Reading words: hat, rat, cat, mat, bat, fat. How to use this worksheet: Step 1. Ask the child to spin a paper clip and say the word aloud - CAT. Find the word CAT. Step 2. Ask the child to point to the word CAB and read it aloud. /k/ /a/ /t/ Ask how many sounds are in the word CAT. (three) Repeat. Printing options: in color and black lines.
As a conclusion to our Snowville, we made Ice-cream in a Bag by measuring and combining all of the directions. Try this at home with your parents and see if you can follow the directions to make delicious ice-cream. Ingredients: Ice cubes 1 cup of half and half 1/2 cup Kosher salt 2 Tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 pint size ziplock bag 1 gallon size ziplock bag Directions: Combine half and half, sugar, and vanilla in pint-size bag. Seal bag tightly (do not want it to leak) Fill gallon-size ziplock bag halfway with ice cubes. Sprinkle Kosher salt over ice cubes. Insert pint-size bag with ingredients into bag with ice and salt. Seal gallon-size bag. Shake bag for 5-10 minutes until the ice-cream mixture begins to harden. Take small bag out of ice and open. Enjoy!
Are your kids fascinated by words? Are you teaching Homonyms and vocabulary? Then this is for you! I call the homonyms "Super Words"! Here you will get 20 homonyms to illustrate the two meanings of. I have put 2 to a page for less copies. You will also get a blank one to fill in your own homonym as you come across more! The homonyms included in this packet are: top, box, bat, star, bark, can, fall, nail, light, rock, saw, row, sink, tire, chip, jam, well, trip, park, and spring I hope your kids have as much fun with these as mine do! Thanks for stopping by and please come visit my store for other resources you might find helpful! Please visit me at: FACEBOOK PAGE TPT STORE
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SO sorry this is so late in getting posted! My "real" job has been kicking my booty lately!! We did our Pumpkins Close Read a couple of weeks ago and the kids did a great job on the annotations. :o) It is NOT about Halloween! It is a great passage for anytime of year. We did the annotations on the second day after re-reading. It looked much like the annotations portion of the Bats close read. I annotated one thing at a time on the smartboard (sorry I didn't get a picture of this), and then kiddos went back to seats to do what I did. •Discussion/modeling about the title and the word pumpkins - kiddos back to seats to circle title and highlight the word pumpkins then back to floor. •Discussion/modeling about the sun/soil/water - kids back to seats to circle text and annotate with illustrations. After this they were interested in annotating other words or phrases that resonated with them. (Some drew seeds, flowers, etc.) My role during this time is to support when they are looking for words within the text. It always amazes me the amount of words they remember from the readings that they are still interested in finding and annotating, or calling attention to in some way! Also.... •This activity is included in my Pumpkin Life Cycle resource. It is not in the Close Reading for Kindergarten & First Grade Quarter 2 Bundle. The Quarterly Bundles have totally different passages (no repeats!) than what I include in my other resources (if someone purchases more than one of my resources I want them to have all new stuff!!) •For "highlighting" we use yellow and orange crayons! Thanks for your patience! More on Close Reading in Kindergarten coming soon! 0
Good readers and writers--well good learners in general, bring a "backpack" of prior background knowledge to school each day along with the backpack that holds their lunch, homework, and so on. This knowledge is what has been coined the "fancy-smancy" term schema by Piaget. We all know that what children learn is based on their adaption to the world as we present it through books, inquiry-based learning, read-alouds and technology. Assimilation occurs when our young learners use their background knowledge to learn something new. Accommodation occurs when the background knowledge doesn't fit in the right way so things have to be adjusted. We do this through reading all the time. It's our job to explicitly teach our young readers this skill. Since the best ideas I get are often the ones I learn from other teachers, I saw this idea from Erica's Ed-Ventures (check out her blog by clicking HERE) and had to use it. Here's her photograph that was my inspiration. She used this anchor chart to activate her students' schema on bats. I decided to type up these headings for myself because my first and second graders are well into our Weather Unit, specifically studying about rain. We discussed our background knowledge to kick-off our study. We did some science experiments, and I read aloud several books on rain. My favorite book is Down Comes the Rain by the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out series. All of these are AWESOME, by the way. Here is what our Schema Map looked like. Notice in these two pictures how we started to move the stickies along as our schema was assimilated and accommodated--what a powerful visual to trace our learning. The possibilities for these headings are endless, and I'm sharing them with all my followers by clicking HERE. Enjoy and please share how you plan to use them by leaving me a comment--share the love!
October Activities For Kindergarten that include monsters, bats, and spider activities, books and **FREEBIE**.
Do you live in an area with bats? We do, but they’re so fast that they’re very hard to spot when they’re scudding about after insects at dusk; and, of course, human ears are not equipped to hear the ultrasonic tones that they use to make their echolocation calls, so we can’t hear them either. A bat […]
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Fun and engaging phonics comprehension activities and worksheets for your kindergarten and first grade students. It covers different skills including phonics, fluency, comprehension and story sequencing. It is perfect for kindergarten literacy centers, morning working and homework. This pack includes 29 short vowel stories. And there are 2 worksheets for each short vowel story with different activities, read and color, trace and write, cut and paste etc. Total pages : 62 pages
Who lives in the house of " at ?" Why, bat, hat, mat, rat, and cat, of course! When doing this lesson, the child puts all the "at" cards o...
